An Arkansas woman found herself in a consumer tech nightmare scenario recently when she discovered that someone had put an Apple tracking device on her car — a grim example of how high tech gadgets are often coopted for surveillance and harassment.
As Jonesboro, Arkansas’ KAIT News reported, the unidentified woman was shocked when she turned on her iPhone in her car on the way to work and got a notification informing her that there was an AirTag, Apple’s new consumer tracking device, somewhere nearby.
“It popped up I have an AirTag following and I’m like, no,” she told the station.
The woman told KAIT that she began looking around for the device and “jumped” when she saw it taped to the trunk of her car. She immediately bagged it and took it to her local police department, but as of yet, no updates on her case have been released to the public.